Missions: Conversion in Indonesia

During the long, unhappy dictatorship of
Sukarno, Christian missionaries in Indonesia were plagued by Communist
troublemakers and Moslem terrorists, and subjected to periodic
harassment by a capricious government. Today, the predominantly Moslem
nationin which Christians number less than 10% of the 110 million
populationis the scene of an explosive evangelical revival that the
U.S. journal Presbyterian Life calls "one of the largest movements
toward Christianity in modern decades." In the 20 months since the
anti-Communist revolution, Roman Catholic and Protestant churches have
won an estimated 250,000 converts.

In East and Central Java alone, 65,000 persons have been converted. In
the...